Liz Truss
I’d be the perfect communist shill
Could I be the model communist shill? Consider these facts: I was born and raised in China. I speak and…
Who will Liz forgive?
Liz Truss has always been more popular with Tory party members than with Tory politicians. The moment of greatest peril…
Diary
She’ll never do it. She’d have to be mad. Why take the risk? That’s what everyone said when I announced…
Thatcherism is a cult the Tories should not follow
Friedrich Nietzsche may not be the most fashionable member of the conservative canon, but doubtless he wouldn’t care much. He…
Sturgeon fires back at Truss
Miaow. The claws are out in the Tory leadership race, after Liz Truss took a pop at Nicola Sturgeon. The…
Is Liz Truss sowing the seeds of her own downfall?
Liz Truss looks to be winning a decisive victory for cold-eyed conservatism. A victory for I went to the school…
Truss turns on the media
To Darlington, for another of the endless Tory leadership hustings. Last night’s clash covered much of the same old ground…
Truss is ‘misinterpreted’, again
With four weeks left in the leadership race, how many more times is Liz Truss going to be ‘misinterpreted’? First,…
The problem with Liz Truss’s ‘momentum’
‘Truss’s campaign to be Britain’s next prime minister,’ wrote one political commentator this week, ‘seems to have unstoppable momentum. She…
Can Truss be trusted?
Liz Truss has taken the lead in the Tory leadership race with an agenda that seems radical and ambitious, whereas…
Planet Liz
What foreign policy would look like under a PM Truss
Will China hawks match words with deeds?
In the Tory leadership race both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have been keen to talk tough on China. Truss…
Sturgeon isn’t an ‘attention seeker’
There is a lot of pearl-clutching over Liz Truss’s dismissive remarks about Nicola Sturgeon. Much of it involves conflating a…
Is Liz Truss too comfortable?
After England scored their first goal last night, the team visibly relaxed and had a spell of playing happily until…
The real difference between Sunak and Truss’s tax policies
The Tory leadership race is becoming a test of patience. Today Rishi Sunak has laid out his plan to slash…
Sunak is running out of time
This could be the biggest week of the Tory leadership campaign: postal ballots will start arriving on members’ doormats in…
Poll: Tory voters prefer Truss over Sunak
The Tory leadership races is a tale of two approaches: Liz Truss appears to be campaigning to win the party…
Diary
Two and a half years ago I joined the Tory party to vote for Boris, then unjoined as soon as…
Running to keep up
Why Sunak suddenly finds himself facing defeat
I’m torn on Truss
I’ve been lucky enough in my working life so far to hold a string of jobs that have allowed me…
Andrew Neil’s interview with Rishi Sunak – as it happened
Rishi Sunak was interviewed by Andrew Neil on Channel 4 tonight. He was quizzed on inflation, the NHS backlog and more. Liz Truss,…
Truss gambit outflanks Sunak on China
Talk about a tale of two campaigns. China has been one of the dominant themes this week in the Tory…
Liz Truss’s failed Lib Dem bid revealed
She is the current favourite to be our next Prime Minister but Liz Truss hasn’t always been such a staunch…
Will Liz Truss dare to face Andrew Neil?
It’s six weeks to go until voting closes for the Tory leadership and polls suggest that Liz Truss is the…
The final three
The leadership candidates on taxes, net zero and freedom of speech
